Last year Hilton announced the launch of a new hotel brand, Tru, and now the first hotel is scheduled to open next month in Oklahoma City. While their is a dizzying number of hotel brands out there already, this is one brand I’m excited about: It’s a mid-scale, select service hotel brand that is much […]
Bangkok, the City of Angels, is a fun city – as long as you don’t have to fight your way through the maddening street traffic. Fortunately, Bangkok has the wonderful BTS SkyTrain and MRT Subway taking you quickly and in air conditioned comfort to most of the places you want to visit. It’s easy and
I’ve written regularly about the great fares low-cost carriers Wow Air and Norwegian Air have brought to the North Atlantic, starting a fare war with the legacy carriers and resulting in air fares falling to historic lows between the US and Europe. Now, the legacy carriers are striking back – IAG, the parent company of
Priceline Group, the travel giant, is planning to purchase Momondo and Cheapflights for $550 Million and merge it into Kayak to create a leading global travel search brand! I’m a big fan of Kayak and have used Momondo. Find out what this acquisition will mean to travelers!
The fastest growing airline market is Asia and there is a constant stream of news about new routes, new planes and new business class or premium economy class seats to make your travels better. Philippine Airlines (PAL), after fighting their low-cost competitor Cebu Pacific Airlines for years, wants to become a 5-star airline and is now
AirAsia announced that they have received FAA approval to start flights to the United States. That makes them the second Asian low-cost carrier, after Cebu Pacific, based in Manila, Philippines, to get approval to fly. Low-cost carriers like Wow and Norwegian Air have brought increased competition and low fares to North-Atlantic routes – can these
We loved the sea plane transfer on our visit to the Conrad Rangali Maledives – the non-stop service created an end-to-end luxury experience that’s hard to match. The Philippines has many islands and beaches even more beautiful than the Maledives and there is a growing number of upscale resorts, but so far the commercial flights
Traveling to and from Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) has been difficult, but after many delays, the much anticipated Skyway around the airport is finally open, drastically cutting travel times to the airport and between the terminals! Read all the good news after the break!
Qantas announced their first non-stop flight from Australia to the UK, with flights between Perth and London starting in 2018. And Sydney, after years of haggling, approved a new airport in the suburbs to supplement Kingsford International, which has been operating at capacity, giving new choices to travelers to down under!
When Marriott acquired Starwood, many die-hard Starwood fans were worried about what would happen to the many more upscale hotels and their beloved rewards program. Marriott addressed the rewards program issue on the day the acquisition became official – and allowed to link the programs and exchange points immediately. They are now addressing the management
United launched it’s new Polaris Business Class in June this year, with new pod-like seats, new Polaris lounges and new inflight amenities (read all the details here). On December 1, they opened the first Polaris lounge in Chicago’s O’Hare airport and started offering the in-flight amenities and food as PolarisFirst and PolarisBusiness class, replacing the
airberlin recently renounced a major restructuring of its business after years of financial losses, including the wet-lease of planes to competitor Lufthansa, the focus on business-travel to North America, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Italy and changes to the leisure business. Now, the changes for the leisure travel arm have been announced: airberlin is selling its